I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 649 In the Eyes
The figure in the clouds was still moving.

The roots reflecting the red light stirred the clouds from time to time, but did not destroy the structure of the clouds. Instead, they made the clouds more compact.

The clouds and mist that lingered for a long time above the Tianjin Mountains seemed to be the work of the vines.

The entire Tianjin Mountain world was turned into a mess by it, the ecology collapsed, and all living things were devastated...

The scary thing is that if what the black shadow said is true, this vine might be doing the same thing in other worlds, and no one is stopping it, and the impact is becoming bigger and bigger.

The black shadow's words were very sincere. Since he knew that Mo Ling came from human society, he never attacked him again.

But the identity of the black shadow is still in doubt, there are still layers of fog around it, and Mo Ling cannot believe his words easily.

"Is it a human, or the so-called 'shadow'? Do the seniors and doctors it mentioned really exist?"

"The shadow always thinks it is not a shadow... its thoughts also seem very confused."

However, at present, it is the only one Mo Ling can trust.

In this lonely world of knowledge, it seems that only this dark shadow comes from human society.

Just like the black shadow can only rely on Mo Ling, Mo Ling can only trust it.

"Do you have a way to go to other worlds? I want to see that vine." Mo Ling wrote on the electronic screen. He still planned to confirm what the black shadow said first.

"Of course, I'll take you there."

The black shadow did not hesitate and turned into a ball of black smoke, wrapping around the block.

The bubble eyeball in the sky had been watching the conversation between the black shadow and Mo Ling. When it saw that they were about to leave, it began to speak strange riddles to Mo Ling:
"The difference between a shadow and a person is only caused by the different angles of observation."

"The light shines on the person, casting a shadow on the ground... From the perspective of the light, you can never see the shadow, you can only see the person, but from the perspective of the ground, the person blocks the light, everything is dark, and the person becomes the shadow."

“There is no right or wrong, good or bad between light and the ground. They just use limited angles to feel the world from their perspectives.”

"And you and I are no different from them. We only see the side of the world that is presented to us."

"Shadows are just imitating humans. How can they be good or bad? Are humans good or bad?"

"The vine is just climbing along the tree. How can it be good or bad? Is the tree good or bad?"

"Look, look... If you just look, you can only see the person standing there, or the shadow falling to the ground."

"It's either black... or white..."

The bubble eyeball was still muttering. The black smoke had already enveloped the cube, and Mo Ling could no longer hear the riddles of the eyeball clearly.

At this moment, a helpless voice came from the black smoke: "Every time I come here, they say the same thing to me..."

"I asked them what these words meant, but they wouldn't tell me. They just kept repeating these riddles and metaphors. There was no logic at all."

"There's nothing we can do about it. This is the nature of their race. There are also records in the library that their extinction is largely due to this..."

The black smoke carried the cube towards an unknown place and told him about the bubble eyeball race.

"There are several books in the library that specifically introduce them. 'Where the Eyes Cannot Reach' is a book that introduces their habits. There is another book that explores them more carefully and specifically studies their strange way of communicating through riddles..."

"The book is called—"Mystery Vision"."

…Although the Eternal Thirst regarded the Bubble Eyeball race as “not worth mentioning”, they would not miss any knowledge that could be explored, including the history, evolutionary path, and civilization of the Bubble Eyeball race…

The things recorded in the book "Mystery Vision" are obviously more in-depth.

The bubble-eye race actually has a name, and they call themselves "Well Bottom People".

Their powerful visual senses did not bring them confidence, but instead made them doubt the world.

If a normal creature sees an apple, it will only think that it is an apple.

But the people at the bottom of the well are different. They see a lot more than just the reddish skin of the apple...

They can see the molecules that make up the apple, see the various elements mixed inside the apple through the gaps between the molecules, see the odor molecules escaping from the surface of the apple, see the microorganisms crawling on the apple...

Not only that, by following the light on the apple, they can even see how the apple grows.

The red spots on the pale red apple faded, gradually turned green, shrank, and shrank into flowers. The blooming flowers slowly turned into buds and shrank into the branches...

The branch retreated back to the trunk, and in the blink of an eye, only a short section of the tall fruit tree was left. The brown trunk turned into tender green sprouts and drilled back into the soil.

Thick flesh grows around the seed, and the newly completed apple flies back to the branch, repeating the previous process.

The light still shines and the cycle continues.

The material things in the world are separated and combined, and in the end they are no longer the same as they once were.

As the cells of fruit trees are passed down from generation to generation, their genetic material is also transformed and evolved.

Apple is still Apple, but it is not the same Apple as it used to be.

At this time, you ask those people at the bottom of the well who have seen all this:
"What do you see?"

They can only fall into silence, with nothing to say...

What should the answer be? An apple? An apple tree? An iterative flow of genetic material? A mess of protein expressions? A cell? A molecule? The elements between those molecules?
After seeing so much, I became hesitant.

The macroscopic world, the microscopic world, the present and the past, overlap in our field of vision. This is what we have seen, so how can we be sure of what we cannot see?

Is there something beyond sight? Is the world as simple as it seems? The people at the bottom of the well cannot answer these questions. They can only watch silently and give vague answers to questions about the nature of things.

Over time, the communication between them became full of puzzles.

The language system of the Well Bottom People civilization is full of uncertainty. They are skeptical about the world and, of course, their own judgments.

They will not give any definite answers, and even if they do, they will point out that they are one-sided and only valid within a certain system.

The civilization of the people at the bottom of the well also fell into stagnation. They could clearly see everything, but they did not use this to develop technology because they were not sure whether the "technology" they developed was "certain".

The development of science and technology is based on the cognition of the world, but their cognition of the world is "uncertain."

This world is too complicated for people at the bottom of the well.

It was so complicated that... a huge fear rose in their hearts, looming over the entire race, and they could no longer move.

(End of this chapter)